Definitions for tender
ˈtɛn dərten·der

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. tender, legal tender, stamp(noun)

   something that can be used as an official medium of payment

2. attendant, attender, tender(noun)

   someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

3. bid, tender(noun)

   a formal proposal to buy at a specified price

4. tender(noun)

   car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water

5. tender, ship's boat, pinnace, cutter(noun)

   a boat for communication between ship and shore

6. tender, supply ship(adj)

   ship that usually provides supplies to other ships

7. tender(adj)

   given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality

   "a tender heart"; "a tender smile"; "tender loving care"; "tender memories"; "a tender mother"

8. sensitive, sore, raw, tender(adj)

   hurting

   "the tender spot on his jaw"

9. tender(adj)

   young and immature

   "at a tender age"

10. affectionate, fond, lovesome, tender, warm(adj)

    having or displaying warmth or affection

    "affectionate children"; "a fond embrace"; "fond of his nephew"; "a tender glance"; "a warm embrace"

11. tender(adj)

    easy to cut or chew

    "tender beef"

12. tender, untoughened(adj)

    physically untoughened

    "tender feet"

13. crank, cranky, tender, tippy(adj)

    (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

14. tender(verb)

    (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition

    "tender green shoots"

15. tender(verb)

    offer or present for acceptance

16. offer, bid, tender(verb)

    propose a payment

    "The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting"

17. tender(verb)

    make a tender of; in legal settlements

18. tender, tenderize, tenderise(verb)

    make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer

    "tenderize meat"

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Tender(noun)

   one who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse

2. Tender(noun)

   a vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like

3. Tender(noun)

   a car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water

4. Tender(verb)

   to offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt

5. Tender(verb)

   to offer in words; to present for acceptance

6. Tender(noun)

   an offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest

7. Tender(noun)

   any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract

8. Tender(noun)

   the thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation

9. Tender

   easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit

10. Tender

    sensible to impression and pain; easily pained

11. Tender

    physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate

12. Tender

    susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic

13. Tender

    exciting kind concern; dear; precious

14. Tender

    careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of

15. Tender

    unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild

16. Tender

    adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain

17. Tender

    apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject

18. Tender

    heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel

19. Tender(noun)

    regard; care; kind concern

20. Tender(verb)

    to have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value

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1. Tender

   "Tender" is a song by English alternative rock band Blur.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Tender

   ten′dėr, v.t. to stretch out or offer for acceptance, esp. to offer to supply certain commodities for a certain period at rates specified.—n. an offer or proposal, esp. of some service, also the paper containing it: the thing offered, the actual production and formal offer of a sum due in legal money, or an offer of services to be performed, in order to save the consequences of non-payment or non-performance.

2. Tender

   ten′dėr, adj. soft, delicate: easily impressed or injured: not hardy: fragile: weak and feeble: easily moved to pity, love, &c.: careful not to injure (with of): unwilling to cause pain: apt to cause pain: pathetic, expressive of the softer passions: compassionate, loving, affectionate: young and inexperienced: weakly in health: delicate, requiring careful handling: quick, keen: apt to lean over under sail.—n. Ten′der-foot, one not yet hardened to life in the prairie, mining-camp, &c.: a new-comer.—adj. Ten′der-heart′ed, full of feeling.—adv. Ten′der-heart′edly.—n. Ten′der-heart′edness.—adj. Ten′der-heft′ed (Shak.), having great tenderness.—ns. Ten′derling, one too much coddled, an effeminate fellow: one of the first horns of a deer; Ten′der-loin, the tenderest part of the loin of beef, pork, &c., lying close to the ventral side of the lumbar vertebræ.—adv. Ten′derly.—n. Ten′derness. [Fr. tendre—L. tener, allied to tenuis, thin.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. tender

   A small vessel duly commanded, and employed to attend a larger one, to supply her with stores, to carry intelligence or volunteers and impressed men to receiving ships, &c. An enemy's ship captured by cutters or boats fitted out as tenders by men-of-war, but without any commission or authority from the admiralty, will not insure a prize to the benefit of the ship. The condemnation will be as a droit of admiralty, on the principle that an officer does not retain his commission for the purposes of prize on board another ship; but if captured by one of her boats, and brought to the ship, she is good prize, as with slaves. Tender is also a synonym of crank; thus, a spar may be tender.

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1. tender

   Song lyrics by tender -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by tender on the Lyrics.com website.

British National Corpus

1. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'tender' in Adjectives Frequency: #862

How to pronounce tender?

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   Alex

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   Daniel

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   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of tender in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of tender in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of tender in a Sentence

1. Edgar Allan Poe:

   Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

2. Marie Antoinette:

   In our own misfortunes how much comfort has our affection for one another afforded us! And, in times of happiness, we have enjoyed that doubly from being able to share it with a friend; and where can one find friends more tender and more united than in one's own family?

3. Peter Ustinov:

   Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

4. George Washington Carver:

   How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

5. Marie Louise De La Ramee:

   Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

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